Russia’s Chief of Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, today said that the new START treaty with the United States on nuclear arms limitation was being hindered by US plans to deploy missile defenses along the Russian frontier.
General Makarov’s comments echoed those of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov over the weekend, who insisted that “it is impossible to talk serious about the reduction of nuclear capabilities when a nuclear power is working to deploy protective systems against vehicles to deliver nuclear warheads possessed by other countries.”
Despite these fairly unambiguous comments, the White House insisted that the missiles were “no obstacle” to the new START, claiming as evidence only that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hadn’t mentioned them in his most recent phone call to President Obama.
But Russia has clearly, and repeatedly, objected to American plans to put interceptor missiles in Eastern Europe. This objection cooled when President Obama abandoned a Czech-Poland deal, but it has since been replaced with plans to put them in Eastern Poland and Romania.
The USA should have worked towards cooperation and friendship with Russia after 1991 instead of arrogantly trying to impose a global unipolar hegemony. What a tragic missed opportunity! What if America had withdrawn all its military forces from Europe, closed all its bases there, left NATO and not bombed Serbia? What if America had offered a large interest free (or very low) loan to Russia to help the country? In short, what if America had done just about the opposite of what it did do? How different things might have been today. Tragic and stupid.
USA is doing what it does best : making Trouble and cause Problems no matter where they are. time for the World to unite in the old Chant : Yankee Go Home !!
It´s worse than that. The missiles in Poland and Romania are part of US First-Strike Capability. They are meant to shoot down Russia´s retaliatory force after a First-Strike. As former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org-has pointed out, the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. According to Uni of Colorado 100 warheads Hiroshima-size are enough for Nuclear Winter. Both Russia and the US should go below 100 warheads then. You can only commit suicide once. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal. And we could have been here about 4 billion years more if it were not for the bloody fools in the Pentagon.
Please help by sending the following-agreed to by Bob Aldridge-to Congress, the Senate, the Media:
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability – – the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit) of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.
I hope you agree that the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is the most urgent problem because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning.
it's beyond me how the US pretends Russia to negotiate in good faith if it is willfully sabotaging the whole process.
ya see this has to do with that re-occurring medical problem,due to the side effects of self induced brainwashing,steroids,air-born horroids,beta-blockers microwavable adrennal "products,air-born half animal human hy-breds,,,OO,that kinda thing,of course the kosher by-products in the food probably don't help much either ,please exscuse them for continuously acting ,OO,well,strangly bizarre to put it mildly,just don't trust the sounds outta thair mouths to make much sense ,about 99 &1/2 % of the tyme,or trust em to have an honorable word at all actually,the near earth radio-electrafication and dalussions of grandour don't help much either,stay away from the cage and whatever ya do,don't make i contact